THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol. XVIII. 



1895 



No. V, 



LOCATING FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



FIRST trip made this season for the location of 



these stations was in the counties of Huron and 



Bruce. The writer, accompanied by Prof. Hutt, 



of the Ontario Agricultural College, set out on 



Monday, August 26th, taking with us bicycles 



for easy access to various pjoints. 



At the Agricultural College, Guelph, we 

 found the greenhouse, the trees and shrubs of 

 the lawn and the experimental strawberry 

 plots objects of special interest. Prof. Hutt 

 is certainly much to be commended for 

 the systematic manner of his operations. 

 He cultivates flowers not for their ostentatious dis- 

 play, but with the object of completing a collec- 

 tion of each kind, so that his students may gradually 

 become acquainted with their distinguishing features. The plants in the green- 

 house are plainly labelled, so that both student and visitor may constantly 

 associate the plant and name and thus learn much, quite unconscious of effort. 

 In place of the wooden labels so much in use among florists, and on which the 

 writing is almost illegible, he uses labels of celluloid procured from the organ 

 factory, cut about twice the size of the ordinary label, and this is supported by a 

 label pin. On it is written in plain characters the name of the plant. The ink 

 which Mr. Hutt uses is indelible and is made of varnish and drop-black, with a 

 sufficient amount of turpentine to thin it for easy application. 



